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We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025/26 Poetry Competition!

Home Forums 📚Books & Literature Poetry & Creative Writing We are delighted to announce the winners of our 2025/26 Poetry Competition!

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    Magma holds two poetry competitions each year: the Judge’s Prize for poems of 11 to 50 lines, which was judged this year by Rishi Dastidar, and the Editors’ Prize for poems up to 10 lines, which was judged by a panel of Magma editors.
    The winning poems will be published in Magma 95, Summer 2026.
    Thank you to everyone who entered and trusted Magma with your poems. Some long discussions and hard decisions were made!
    JUDGE’S PRIZE
    First The cleverest man in the world Sharon Black
    Second The Evolution of X Damen O’Brien
    Third A hundred tiny naked women Lesley Curwen
    Commended Linguistics Penny Blackburn
    Commended Elegy for the Argos catalogue Chrissie Dreier
    Commended Skibidi Toilet Sam Harvey
    Commended Believe Me Conan Tan
    Commended Overnight you became a river Fiona Ritchie Walker
    EDITORS’ PRIZE
    First When did you last see your father? A C Clarke
    Second Light / Regular / Super / Super Plus  Aliyah Begum
    Third Scrimshaw Catherine Spooner
    Commended Hanging by a Thread, You Instruct Me to Care Jasmin Allenspach
    Commended One Hit Wonder Daragh Byrne
    Commended Childish games Eleanor Holmes
    Commended Disneyland Steven Stromboli
    Commended Lichenisation  Max Wallis

     

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